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Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

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Post by apitman »

wutwutwat wrote: post #13

Full circle. Jeff originally wrote the open source program localtunnel[0], which ngrox was originally built on top of (though I doubt it is still based on that but maybe), now an open source solution to replace the commercial thing, that's based on the open source thing :) The beauty and freedom of open source shines through [0] https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel

Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:

OG localtunnel (23 Jan 2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...

Other localtunnel (17 Jun 2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...

ngrok (20 Mar 2013): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...

I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

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Post by apitman »

charles_f wrote: post #15
1oooqooq wrote: post #5

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I made my own as well (I think we're not far off parity between number of ngrok alternatives and developers), the main interest over ssh is traffic inspection. And not having an ssh port open to the world.

Do you have a link to your implementation?

Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

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Post by hacker_newz »

joshmanders wrote: post #16
bluelightning2k wrote: post #7

What was your incentive for building this?

Why does everything have to have an incentive outside of "because I wanted to"?

Because open-sourcing and publicizing a tool with no valid use-case comes off silly.

Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

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Post by bluelightning2k »

joshmanders wrote: post #16
bluelightning2k wrote: post #7

What was your incentive for building this?

Why does everything have to have an incentive outside of "because I wanted to"?

Why does every question have to have a purpose deeper than "because I was curious"?

Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

#26

Post by ibash »

bluelightning2k wrote: post #25
joshmanders wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does everything have to have an incentive outside of "because I wanted to"?

Why does every question have to have a purpose deeper than "because I was curious"?

banana

Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

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Post by [deleted] »

wutwutwat wrote: post #13

Full circle. Jeff originally wrote the open source program localtunnel[0], which ngrox was originally built on top of (though I doubt it is still based on that but maybe), now an open source solution to replace the commercial thing, that's based on the open source thing :) The beauty and freedom of open source shines through [0] https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel

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Re: Show HN: Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams

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Post by joshmanders »

hacker_newz wrote: post #23
joshmanders wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does everything have to have an incentive outside of "because I wanted to"?

Because open-sourcing and publicizing a tool with no valid use-case comes off silly.

You sound like someone who would throw their child's painting away instead of putting it on the fridge because it was just a piece of paper with a few brushes of paint slapped onto it.
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